Apparatus for supplying, heating, and burning crude oil and air.



- H. E. WEAVER.

` APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYINGLIIBATING, AND BURNING GRUDE OIL AND AIR.

AILIOATION FILED JAN, 14, 1999.

Patented 0ct.`12, 1909.

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HENRY ELLIS WEAVER, OF DALLAS, TEXAS.

APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING, HEATING, AND BURNING CRUDE `OIL AND AIR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Get. 12, 1909.

Application filed January 14, 1909. Serial No. 472,353.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY ELLIS WEAVER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Dallas, in the county of Dallas and State of Texas, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Supplying,Heating, and Burning Crude Oil and Air; and I do declare the followingto be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same.

This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for supplying,heating and burning crude oil and air.

The object of the invention is to provide an apparatus of this characterin which the air and oil are warmed before being supplied to the burnerand in which the warm or heated air before passing to the burner isemployed to warm the oil as well as to exert a pressure thereon. Afurther obj ect is to provide an improved form of burner having meanswhereby a certain amount of air is continuously passing to the burner,thus preventing the same from becoming clogged. i v

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists of certainnovel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts aswill be more fully described and particularly pointed out in theappended claim. A

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a diagrammatic perspectiveview of a cook ing stove showing the apparatus l applied thereto; Fig. 2is a vertical sectional view through the oil tank showing thearrangement of the oil and air pipes therein; Fig. 3 is a detailsectional view through the burner and the adjacent ends of the oil andair supply pipes.

In the embodiment of the invention as shown in the accompanying drawingswhere in the apparatus is shown as being applied to an ordinary cookstove, 1 denotes an oil tank with which is connected a compressed airsupply pipe 2, said pipe preferably enten ing the tank at the bottom andpassing upwardly therethrough to the top of the same, as shown at 3,where said pipe is connected to a transversely disposed discharge pipe 4in which is formed a series of air discharging ports 5. The air supplypipe 2 is connected at its opposite end to an air pump or other sourceof compressed air supply (not shown).

The pipe 2 before entering the tank 1 is provided with a loop shapedextension 6 which is arranged within the smoke pipe of the stove and isheated therein so that the air passing from the pipe 2 is heated beforeentering the tank and said heated air in coming in contact with the oilafter being discharged through the ports 5 warms the oil and at the sametime exerts a pressure thereon.

In the tire box of the stove is arranged a burner 7 with which isconnected an oil sup ply pipe 8 which passes around the outside of thestove and is connected to the lower end of the tank 1, as shown. Theburner 7 is provided with a branch 9 with which one end of the oilsupply pipe is connected and said branch 9 with a regulating valve 10whereby the supply of oil to the burner is controlled. The branch 9communicates with a mixing chamber 12 arranged in the burner.

Formed on the burner is a nipple 13 with which is connected the end ofan air conducting pipe 14 which preferably extends around through theupper portion of the stove above the oven and is connected to the upperportion of the tank above the oil, as shown at 15, whereby the heatedair discharged into the upper end of the tank from the ports 5 of thecross pipe 4 is conducted to the burner.

Un the burner is formed a branch 16 in which is screwed a clean out plug17 on the outer end of which is arranged an operating stem 18 having ahand wheel 19 whereby the plug may be unscrewed and removed from theburner when desired. The outer end of the branch 16 is preferablyprovided with a packing gland 20 arranged around the stem 18 of theplug. In the inner end of the plug is formed a socket or passage 21which comf municates with a passage 22 opening into the mixing chamber12. To one side of the plug 17 and communicating with the passage 21 isa small air port or passage 23 which communicates at its outer end withthe nipple 13 and the end of the air conducting pipe 14. Through thereduced port or passage 23 the warmed compressed air is admitted to thepassages 21 and 22 and from thence enters the mixing chamber 12 where itis mixed with the oil and passes through a conducting tube 24 to theburner tip 25 arranged on the outer end of the tube 24, as shown. The

'burner tip 25 is preferably formed in alineemployed in connection witha heating stove, the tip 25 is preferably arranged at right angles tothe tube 24 as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3 of the drawings. On thetube Qfl is formed a threaded enlargement on which is screwed clampingnuts 26 which are adapt` ed to be engaged with asuitable part of thestove to clamp the burner into engagement therewith.

F rom the foregoing description, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, the construction and operation of the inventionwill be readily understood without requiring a more extendedexplanation.

Various changes in the form, proportion and the minor details ofconstruction, may be resorted to without departing from the principle orsacrificing any of the advantages of the invention as defined in theappended claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters-Patent is:

in an apparatus of the character described,

said branch of the burner with said oil tank, an air conducting pipe toconnect said burner with the upper portion of the oil tank, a plugarranged in said burner, said plug havand an air port, a mixing chamberformed in said burner and communicating with the oil supply branch andwith the air passage and port in said plug, a tip arranged on saidsecured in the fire box of the stove.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

HENRY ELLIS WTEAVER. Witnesses OTTO H. LANG, Y FRANK O. MITCHELL.

branch, an oil conducting pipe to connect ing formed therein an airconducting passage burner, and means whereby the burner is

